Radio wiring set



April 6 1926.

v 1,579,614 A. w. HORNIG RADIO WIRING SET Filed March 5, 1925 Patented Apr. 6, 1926.,

1 5 1155 STATE AUGUST \V. HOBNIG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RADIO WIRING sn'r.

Application filed March 5, 1925. Serial No. 13,],72.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST W HonNIG, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Radio lViringSet, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to facilitate what is called the hook-up of a radio set, i. e. the 'n'oper-connection of the various instruments'and contactpoints by properly located and suitably arranged and connected wires. It is well known'that a great number of radio-sets are built and connected up by amateurs, and that even people who profess to be skilled in building and connecting radio sets, often make mistakes in these wire-connections, either by attaching some of the wires to the wrong posts, or by permitting contact or too close app oach between some of the wires in the cabinet which should be well separated; and further that usually an undue amount of time is consumed in cutting the wires to proper lengths and in properly locating them. 71

lhese difficulties are accentuated by the fact that comparatively few people are able to clearly and accurately read blue-prints and to correctly and quickly follow written instructions. It is therefore desirable to provide means making it easy to properly connect the various instruments and contact points, and that will, almost with certainty, eliminate the chances for error in the location and connection of the wires.

I attain this object by providing an as sembled wiring set in which all the wires necessary for connecting the various instruments and contact points within the cabinet are, in advance of their connection to such instruments and contact points, not only cut to proper length and provided with the eyelets necessary for a proper hook-up, but are also bent into proper shape; are further placed and held in the same position with reference to each other, which they will occupy when they are all properly hooked up: and finally are soldered together where such soldering will be ultimately required.

I illustrate my invention by drawings in which Fig. 1 is a perspective, schematic view, with parts broken away, of the interior of a radio cabinet, showing the various instruments and contact points, together with the wiring connecting these instruments and contact points, all properly in place; and Fig. 2 iso like view of one of my wiring sets, adaptedvfor use with the cabinet and instruments shown in Fig. 1 as it appears before it is placed into position in the cabinet and before any of the wires comprised in its'are connected to the instruments and contact points shown in Fig. 1. I

Referring to 2, wires 10 are cut to proper length, bent into proper shape, and,

where necessary. provided with proper eye 10 by a solder of very low melting point,

in such a manner that all of wires 10, together with eyelets 11 and braces 13 constitute a unitary complete wiring set for the cabinet shown in Fig. 1.

With such a set it is exceedingly easy, even for an inexperienced amateur to make a correct hook-up,this for the reason that when the wiring set is placed in proper position in the cabinet, and then the various instruments are placed in proper position therein,so1nething that is easy to do with the aid of a few simple diagran'is, the proper hook-up is indicated by the very location of the wire ends with reference to the instruments. All that thereupon required, is to attach the wire ends to the instruments and contact points in the appropriate manner, and thereupon to cut away braces 13, or, in lieu of that, to moderately heat up the places where braces 13 are attached to wires 10, so as to soften the solder by which they are attached, and then to remove braces 13 and the solder by which they were attached.

It is manifest that in lieu of metal braces 13, soldered to wires 10, other means, such as non-conducting materials, may be used to hold wires 10 in proper position, and that the construction shown by me might be diviated from in other respects without departing from the essence of my invention. All such deviations I intend to cover by my claims.

I claim:

1. The combination of a set of wires, adapted, dimensioned and fitted to connect the various instruments and contact points within a radio cabinet, with a series of braces adapted to hold said wires, prior to the connection thereof to said instruments and contact-points, in the same relative posi-' tion to each other which they are intended to occupy after the completion of the hookup.

2. The combination of a set of wires, adapted, dimensioned and fitted to connect the various instruments and contact-points within a radio cabinet, with a series of easily removable metal braces adapted to hold said Wires, prior to the connection thereof to said instruments and contactpoints, in the same relative position to each other which they are intended to occupy after the completion of the hook-up.

3. The combination of a set of wires, adapted, dimensioned and fitted to connect the various instruments and contact-points within a radio-cabinet, with a series of metal braces soldered to said wires and adapted to hold said wires, prior to the connection thereof to said instruments and contact-points, in the same relative position to each other which they are intended to occupy after the completion of the hook-up.

4:. The combination of a set of Wires, adapted, dimensioned and fitted to connect the various instruments and contaet-points within a radio-cabinet, with means adapted to hold said wires, prior to the connection thereof to said instruments and contactpoints, in the same relative position to each other which they are intended to occupy after the completion of the hook-pp.

AUGUST W. HORNIG. 

